Words containing wim
4 letter words containing wim
- dwim — /dwim/ [acronym, "Do What I Mean" (not what I say)] 1. Able to guess, sometimes even correctly, the result intended when bogus input was provided. 2. The BBNLISP/INTERLISP function that attempted to accomplish this feat by correcting many of the more common errors. See hairy. 3. Occasionally, an interjection hurled at a balky computer, especially when one senses one might be tripping over legalisms (see legalese). Warren Teitelman originally wrote DWIM to fix his typos and spelling errors, so it was somewhat idiosyncratic to his style, and would often make hash of anyone else's typos if they were stylistically different. Some victims of DWIM thus claimed that the acronym stood for "Damn Warren's Infernal Machine!'. In one notorious incident, Warren added a DWIM feature to the command interpreter used at Xerox PARC. One day another hacker there typed "delete *$" to free up some disk space. (The editor there named backup files by appending "$" to the original file name, so he was trying to delete any backup files left over from old editing sessions.) It happened that there weren't any editor backup files, so DWIM helpfully reported "*$ not found, assuming you meant 'delete *'". It then started to delete all the files on the disk! The hacker managed to stop it with a Vulcan nerve pinch after only a half dozen or so files were lost. The disgruntled victim later said he had been sorely tempted to go to Warren's office, tie Warren down in his chair in front of his workstation, and then type "delete *$" twice. DWIM is often suggested in jest as a desired feature for a complex program; it is also occasionally described as the single instruction the ideal computer would have. Back when proofs of program correctness were in vogue, there were also jokes about "DWIMC" (Do What I Mean, Correctly). A related term, more often seen as a verb, is DTRT (Do The Right Thing); see Right Thing.
- swim — to move in water by movements of the limbs, fins, tail, etc.
- wimp — any of a group of weakly interacting elementary particles predicted by various unified field theories, as the W particle and Z-zero particle, that are characterized by relatively large masses.
5 letter words containing wim
- aswim — in a drifting or bobbing manner
- iswim — (language) (If You See What I Mean) An influential but unimplemented computer programming language described in the article by Peter J. Landin cited below. Landin attempted to capture all known programming language concepts, including assignment and control operators such as goto and coroutines, within a single lambda calculus based framework. ISWIM is an imperative language with a functional core, consisting of sugared lambda calculus plus mutable variables and assignment. A powerful control mechanism, Landin's J operator, enables capture of the current continuation (the call/cc operator of Scheme is a simplified version). Being based on lambda calculus ISWIM had higher order functions and lexically scoped variables. The operational semantics of ISWIM are defined using Landin's SECD machine and use call-by-value (eager evaluation). To make ISWIM look more like mathematical notation, Landin replaced ALGOL's semicolons and begin end blocks with the off-side rule and scoping based on indentation. An ISWIM program is a single expression qualified by "where" clauses (auxiliary definitions including equations among variables), conditional expressions and function definitions. With CPL, ISWIM was one of the first programming languages to use "where" clauses. New data types could be defined as a (possibly recursive) sum of products like the algebraic data types found in modern functional languages. ISWIM variables were probably dynamically typed but Landin may have planned some form of type inference. Concepts from ISWIM appear in Art Evan's PAL and John Reynold's Gedanken, Milner's ML and purely functional languages with lazy evaluation like SASL, Miranda and Haskell.
- wimps — Plural form of wimp.
- wimpy — of, relating to, or characteristic of a wimp.
6 letter words containing wim
7 letter words containing wim
- aruwimi — a river in NE Democratic Republic of Congo, rising near Lake Albert as the Ituri and flowing west into the River Congo. Length: about 1288 km (800 miles)
- outswim — (transitive) To swim faster than.
- swimmer — to move in water by movements of the limbs, fins, tail, etc.
- wimbled — Simple past tense and past participle of wimble.
- wimbles — Plural form of wimble.
8 letter words containing wim
9 letter words containing wim
- kuskokwim — a river in SW Alaska, flowing SW to the Bering Sea. About 724 miles (1170 km) long.
- swimmeret — (in many crustaceans) one of a number of abdominal limbs or appendages, usually adapted for swimming and for carrying eggs, as distinguished from other limbs adapted for walking or seizing.
- wimbledon — a former borough, now part of Merton, in SE England, near London: international tennis tournaments.
- wimpiness — of, relating to, or characteristic of a wimp.
- wimpishly — in a wimpish manner
10 letter words containing wim
- nonswimmer — to move in water by movements of the limbs, fins, tail, etc.
- swimfeeder — a device containing bait, attached to the line to ensure the gradual baiting of the swim from under the surface
- swimmingly — without difficulty; with great success; effortlessly: She passed the exam swimmingly.
11 letter words containing wim
- backswimmer — an aquatic bug belonging to the family Notonectidae that swims on its back using its back legs as oars
- iykwimaityd — if you know what I mean and I think you do
- outswimming — Present participle of outswim.
- wimpishness — The state or quality of being wimpish.
12 letter words containing wim
- backswimmers — Plural form of backswimmer.
- free-swimmer — an animal, as a fish, that swims about freely.
- swimmingness — tearfulness
13 letter words containing wim
- free-swimming — (of aquatic organisms) not attached to a base nor joined in a colony; capable of swimming about freely.
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